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When Holzman learned Danes was no longer keen to continue with the show, her attitude changed as well. Holzman said, "When I realized that Claire truly did not want to do it any more, it was hard for me to want to do it. The joy in writing the show was that everyone was behind it and wanted to do it. And I love her. So part of the joy and excitement and happiness would have gone out of me if she had not been on board 100 percent. I wasn't able to say this at the time, but in retrospect it was a blessing for it to end at a time when we all enjoyed doing it. That's not to say that if the network had ordered more shows that I wouldn't have given it my best. But there was a rightness in how short the season was. This was a show about adolescence and sort of ended in its own adolescence. There was an aura about how short the series was like all things that die young. The show ended at a point that it was still all potential."[42]

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My So-Called Life is seen as a groundbreaking television show for its realistic portrayal of adolescence and for launching a revolution of teen angst-oriented dramas on primetime TV.[49][11] It is credited with moving teen dramas away from the soap opera tone of previous shows like Beverly Hills, 90210 and towards a smarter look at everyday teenage life.[50]

Throughout the hike up Husband Hill, Spirit has consistently been taking the time to collect remote sensing and atmospheric data. And on Sol 421, March 10, the day after her power boost, the rover returned to the planetary exploration spotlight by sending home the first images ever taken of Martian dust devils, which she caught with her navigation and hazard avoidance cameras. Although the whirlwinds are small, and appear as faint, wispy spirals just visible to the naked eye, the science team members now have data in hand to help them determine the possible causes of these legendary phenomena. And, team members are currently reviewing more images that they believe captured other whirlwinds, Crisp said.

"It appears to be containing an iron-bearing sulfate, an oxidized iron, FE3+ type iron, and we have never seen that before," Crisp explained. "We have seen what looked more like magnesium sulfate and possibly some calcium, but this time we had a signature that indicated iron, and the data also suggest the iron sulfate is possibly hydrated, or in other words has bound water -- OH -- in the formula. It was so different that we wanted to go back and check it out."

"We don't have a whole lot more information right now. We're going to pow-wow first," said Christensen. "It's been a long time since the mini-TES was built," he pointed out. "The original design was actually for the [Mars] 2001 lander, and so it got put on the shelf, and then dusted off and we built a second one for the rover. But many of the guys who actually designed it have left the company or retired and sort of scattered to the winds."

Practice a relaxation technique. Take time to relax each day and give your mind a break from the constant worrying. Meditating, breathing exercises, or other relaxation techniques are excellent ways to relieve stress and restore some balance to your life.

Though so little use can be made, in science, of approximategeneralisations, except as a stage on the road to something better,for practical guidance they are often all we have to rely on. Evenwhen science has really determined the universal laws of anyphenomenon, not only are those laws generally too much encumbered withconditions to be adapted for everyday use, but the cases which presentthemselves in life are too complicated, and our decisions require tobe taken too rapidly, to admit of waiting till the existence of aphenomenon can be proved by what have been scientifically ascertainedto be universal marks of it. To be indecisive and reluctant to act,because we have not evidence of a perfectly conclusive character toact on, is a defect sometimes incident to scientific minds, but which,wherever it exists, renders them unfit for practical emergencies. Ifwe would succeed in action, we must judge by indications which, thoughthey do not generally mislead us, sometimes do; and must make up, asfar as possible, for the incomplete conclusiveness of any onindication, by obtaining others t corroborate it. The principles ofinduction applicable to approximate generalisation are therefore a notless important subject of inquiry than the rules for the investigationof universal! truths, and might reasonably be expected to detain usalmost a long, were it not that these principle are mere corollariesfrom those which have been already treated of.

It often happens, however, that the proposition, Most A are B, is notthe ultimatum of our scientific attainments, though the knowledge wepossess beyond it cannot conveniently be brought to bear upon theparticular instance. We may know well enough what circumstancesdistinguish the portion of A which has the attribute B from theportion which has it not, but may have no means, or may not have timeto examine whether those characteristic circumstances exist or not inthe individual case. This is the situation we are generally in whenthe inquiry is of the kind called moral, that is, of the kind whichhas in view to predict human actions. To enable us to affirm anythinguniversally concerning the actions of classes of human beings, theclassification must be grounded on the circumstances of their mentalculture and habits, which in an individual case are seldom exactlyknown; and classes grounded on these distinctions would neverprecisely accord with those into which mankind are divided for socialpurposes. All propositions which can be framed respecting the actionsof human beings as ordinarily classified, or as classified accordingto any kind of outward indications, are merely approximate. We canonly say, Most persons of a particular age, profession, country, orrank in society have such and such qualities; or, Most persons whenplaced in certain circumstances act in such and such a way. Not thatwe do not often know well enough on what causes the qualities depend,or what sort of persons they are who act in that particular way; butwe have seldom the means of knowing whether any individual person hasbeen under the influence of those causes, or is a person of thatparticular sort. We could replace the approximate generalisations bypropositions universally true; but these would hardly ever be capableof being applied to practice. We should be sure of our majors, but weshould not be able to get minors to fit: we are forced, therefore, todraw our conclusions from coarser and more fallible indications.

In the case where the approximate proposition is not the ultimatum ofour scientific knowledge, but only the most available form of it forpractical guidance; where we know, not only that most A have theattribute B, but also the causes of B, or some properties by which theportion of A which has that attribute is distinguished from theportion which has it not; we are rather more favourably situated thanin the preceding case. For we have now a double mode of ascertainingwhether it be true that most A are B; the direct mode, as before, andan indirect one, that of examining whether the proposition admits ofbeing deduced from the known cause, or from any known criterion, ofB. Let the question, for example, be whether most Scotchmen can read?We may not have observed or received the testimony of othersrespecting a sufficient number and variety of Scotchmen to ascertainthis fact; but when we consider that the cause of being able to readis the having been taught it, another mode of determining the questionpresents itself, namely, by inquiring whether most Scotchmen have beensent to schools where reading is effectually taught. Of these twomodes, sometimes one and sometimes the other is the more available. Insome cases, the frequency of the effect is the more accessible to thatextensive and varied observation which is indispensable to theestablishment of an empirical law; at other times, the frequency ofthe causes, or of some collateral indications. It commonly happensthat neither is susceptible of so satisfactory an induction as couldbe desired, and that the grounds on which the conclusion is receivedare compounded of both. Thus a person may believe that most Scotchmencan read, because, so far as his information extends, most Scotchmenhave been sent to school, and most Scotch schools teach readingeffectually; and also because most of the Scotchmen whom he has knownor heard of could read; though neither of these two sets ofobservations may by itself fulfil the necessary conditions of extentand variety.

5. So far as regards the direct application of an approximategeneralisation to an individual instance, this question presents nodifficulty. If the proposition, Most A are B, has been established, bya sufficient induction, as an empirical law, we may conclude that anyparticular A is B with a probability proportioned to the preponderanceof the number of, affirmative instances over the number ofexceptions. If it has been found practicable to attain numericalprecision in the data, a corresponding degree of precision may begiven to the evaluation of the chances of error in the conclusion. Ifit can be established as an empirical law that nine out of every ten Aare B, there will be one chance in ten of error in assuming that any Anot individually known to us is a B; but this, of course, holds onlywithin the limits of time, place, and circumstance embraced in theobservations, and therefore cannot be counted on for any sub-class orvariety of A (or for A in any set of external circumstances) whichwere not included in the average. It must be added that we can guideourselves by the proposition, Nine out of every ten A are B, only incases of which we know nothing except that they fall within the classA. For if we know of any particular instance i, not only thatit falls under A, but to what species or variety of A it belongs, weshall generally err in applying to i the average struck for thewhole genus, from which the average corresponding to that speciesalone would, in all probability, materially differ. And so ifi, instead of being a particular sort of instance, is aninstance known to be under the influence of a particular set ofcircumstances, the presumption drawn from the numerical proportions inthe whole genus would probably, in such a case, only mislead. Ageneral average should only be applied to cases which are neitherknown nor can be presumed to be other than average cases. Suchaverages, therefore, are commonly of little use for the practicalguidance of any affairs but those which concern large numbers. Tablesof the chances of life are useful to insurance offices, but they go avery little way towards informing any one of the chances of his ownlife, or any other life in which he is interested, since almost everylife is either better or worse than the average. Such averages canonly be considered as supplying the first term in a series ofapproximations, the subsequent terms proceeding on an appreciation ofthe circumstances belonging to the particular case. 041b061a72